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Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest

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From: Ron Natalie <ron>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1986 01:41
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In article <1438@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> 	I thought it might be an amusing aside to see if anyone knows of
> a terminal dumber that this one.  I nominate this terminal for the All Time
> Most Brain-damaged Terminal Award because:
> 
The Heapshit H-8 terminal was a real winner.  Not only could it not
display lower case, if you sent it lower case letters it printed
garbage rather than shifting them to upper case like any sane terminal
(like a teletype) would do.  In addition, rather than manufacturing
key tops with the letters on them.  They generated a whole pile of
blank keytops and stick on labels for the letters.

-Ron
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron
From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
Message-ID: <489@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 20:41:34 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.489
Posted: Tue Nov 18 20:41:34 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 23:48:39 EST
References: <1438@kitty.UUCP>
Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
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Keywords: brain-damage, video display terminals, all-time worst